Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Work based policies must be designed to target barriers that night shift workers face when managing weight and metabolic health conditions, a Monash University-led review has found. Making up 13%–27% of the workforce, there are no systems in place to assist night shift workers to make healthier lifestyle choices, despite having
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Epilepsy, also known as seizure disorder, is common, and there are many types. About one in 26 people in the U.S. will develop the disease in their lifetime. It affects people of all races, ethnic backgrounds and ages. Anyone can develop epilepsy. Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes recurring seizures.
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Postpartum hemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal mortality and morbidity worldwide and a common pregnancy complication. This serious medical condition is understudied and not universally defined or well represented in health records. A new study by investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital has used the large language model Flan-T5 to
Washington University physician Raj Dhar, MD, (front) and Gary Marklin, MD, the chief medical officer at Mid-America Transplant in St. Louis, care for a deceased organ donor. Dhar and Marklin led a study that showed that the long-standing practice of treating deceased organ donors with thyroid hormone does not help preserve heart function, may cause
Graph demonstrating increased rate of heart failure hospitalizations in adult patients with congenital heart disease. ACHD indicates adult congenital heart disease; and HF, heart failure. Credit: Journal of the American Heart Association (2023). DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.123.030649 Heart failure is a potentially urgent health concern for young adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) that is often overlooked
A couple walks through a park at sunset, March 10, 2021, in Kansas City, Mo. U.S. life expectancy rose in 2022 — by more than a year — after plunging two straight years at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new government report released Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. The rise was mainly
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Walking at a speed of 4 or more km an hour is linked to a significantly lower risk of type 2 diabetes, suggests a pooled data analysis of the available evidence, published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Moreover, the faster the speed above 4 km/hour, the lower the
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain People aging with an intellectual disability are in better health, living in their communities, with more opportunities, and having greater control in how they live their lives but women’s health, oral health and dementia findings concerning The release of the Wave 5 report of the Intellectual Disability Supplement to The Irish
Credit: Cell Chemical Biology (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2023.10.021 New insights into the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease could unlock novel therapeutic approaches and help to prevent the disease. A study led by Professors Marcus Grimm and Tobias Hartmann at the Rhineland Campus of the SRH University of Applied Health Sciences in Leverkusen and at Saarland University has
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Links between internet adoption and psychological well-being are small at most, despite popular assumptions about the negative psychological effects of internet technologies and platforms, according to a major international study published by the Oxford Internet Institute. The study examined data from two million individuals aged 15 to 89 in 168 countries,